Comenius' School of Infancy: An Essay on the Education of Youth During the First Six Years

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D.C. Heath, 1828 - 99 sider

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Side 42 - O'ER wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Side 4 - I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast founded. 5. What is man that thou rememberest him, or the son of man, that thou lookest on him?
Side 64 - For a child cannot discriminate between what is allegory and what is not ; and whatever at that age is adopted as a matter of belief, has a tendency to become fixed and indelible , and therefore, perhaps, we ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Side 16 - Then are you aware, that in every work the beginning is the most important part, especially in dealing with anything young and tender? for that is the time when any impression, which one may desire to communicate, is most readily stamped and taken.
Side 57 - Surely, then, to him who has an eye to see, there can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters into both.
Side 23 - tis not a body that we are training up, but a man, and we ought not to divide him.

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